Strauss contended that Heidegger, building on the thoughts of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, was "the thinker of our age". "The great achievement of Heidegger was the coherent exposition of the experience of Existenz... Kierkegaard had spoken of existence but within the traditional horizon... Heidegger tried to understand existence out of itself."[1]

Books

Spinoza’s Critique of Religion (1965)

Philosophy and Law (1995)

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis (1936)

The Spirit of Sparta or the Taste of Xenophon (1939)

On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy (1946)

On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero (1948)

Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)

Natural Right and History (1953)

Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958)

What is Political Philosophy? (1959)

The City and Man (1964)

Socrates and Aristophanes (1966)

Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)

Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the "Oeconomicus" (1970)